Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saturday afternoon the majority of the 12,531 who witnessed the Harvard-Columbia football encounter must have left the game shaking their heads and saying to themselves what my father says every time he watches Masterpiece Theatre--"Huh? What...
...Bless me father, for I have sinned..." I triumphed over the impulse, and opened the conversation in non-confessional fashion. Father Bernard McLaughlin, pastor of the Catholic chapel at Logan Airport, smiled and instantly became a helpful fellow. Most of the people at the rally, he confided, were airport people, friends of King from the days when he was director of the Massachusetts Port Authority and a familiar face at Logan. It was a good night for all of them, he concluded, showing a good deal more assurance in the outcome, and a lot less amazement at its denouement, than...
...party over, I headed for the phones, not quite sure of what had happened. Maybe Father McLaughlin had a point with his theory about "middle-class issues," but it seemed that the boos for Dukakis were just a little bit louder than the cheers for Proposition 13 and the death penalty (cheering for the death penalty is, I decided, a uniquely American political pastime) and abortion funding cut-offs. Maybe--but it didn't matter that night, as I headed across the street, passing a happy soul weaving under the influence of dollar-ninety Scotch. A soft breeze carried with...
...food, health and education loans that they maintain have mostly benefited Somoza's politicians. Said one Conservative Party spokesman acidly: "Somoza is part of the American system, not ours." Added Conservative Congressman Eduardo Chamorro Cornel, 44, referring to the American military force that installed Somoza's father in power in 1933: "Somoza is the last Marine...
Pope John Paul I, speaking about God at his regular Sunday Angelus blessing in St. Peter's Square: "He is Father. Even more, God is Mother, who does not want to harm...